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We are crossing Europe, Asia and the Middle East, over mountains and rivers. Through valleys and ravines, cities and farmland we will be in a car completely unsuited for highway traffic, much less off-road excursions. Nevertheless, we are off on July 19th from Hyde Park in London to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
To top it off, team Mongoliza Rice is set to collect more than a thousand Pounds for two Mongolian charities, CAMDA, which provides support for rural farmers facing three years of drought. Farming and livestock are one of the only sources of sustenance for many living in Mongolia. Our second charity, Mongolia Mercy Corps helps provide training and assistance to locals, which will benefit them in working with local and national governmental structures and develop non-profit organizations within Mongolia, run by Mongolians.
After we raise 1000 quid, we hope to keep on it, so donate.
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Maybe not the Last, but the End
At 06:53 on 26-08-2008 David said...
I've been sort of floating around Ulaanbataar wasting away with some of the other rally crews and generally amazing travelers who have driven sans rally from various places like Paris and Krakow. There have been a few bottles of vodka tossed about and quite a few more beers. On Sunday, the last day of the games, Mongolia won it's second ever gold metal. The first was ten days earlier for Judo, the second was in boxing. The streets went mad and Dave's Place Pub, located right on Sukhbataar square - the main city center - was mad as well as being the perfect viewpoint for the madness in the square. Mongolia was in high spirits. Monday, Matt and I went along with a few other Ralliers and the Spanish organizer Alberto out to a Ger Village project run by the Christina Nobel Children's Foundation. It was pretty incredible. Eamon, the Irish Manager of the foundation here in Mongolia gave us a great tour of the project and introduced us to some of the children, house mothers and staff of the local housing area. The village is fully staffed by locals and Eamon does oversight, I have to say that it is indeed one of the best managed projects I have seen and it seems so logical they way they run the operation. Well done indeed. They have small homes for children and the mothers of the house are homeless women they have provided a job for. Each child in the village attends local schools while the school house on site is for the children of the surrounding Ger district who cannot afford the state schools but have homes already. After two years in the village school they are enrolled in state schools by the foundation. CNCF also runs a clinic at the hospital...[Read More] |
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